The Santa Maria
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maryland. This was á libel filed in the District Court of Maryland, by the Consul of his Catholic Majesty for the port of Baltimore, in behalf of the Spanish owners of certain, goods alleged to have been captured on the high‘seas, and taken out of the Spanish ship Santa Maria, by the privateer Patriota, illegally armed and equipped in the United States.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Maryland. This was á libel filed in the District Court of Maryland, by the Consul of his Catholic Majesty for the port of Baltimore, in behalf of the Spanish owners of certain, goods alleged to have been captured on the high‘seas, and taken out of the Spanish ship Santa Maria, by the privateer Patriota, illegally armed and equipped in the United States. The evidence in the cause established the fact that the capturing vessel was owned by citizens of this country, and that she was armed, equipped, and fitted out, in violation of the laws and treaties of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Living&tqn
delivered the opinion of the Court, and after stating the case, proceeded as follows ; '
In a casé of%ó palpable a fitting out and arming in an American port, and proceeding thence directly on a cruize, (whether with or without a commission, is in this case immaterial,) the counsel for the claimant and libellant was right in not attempting to justify the capture. He has therefore confined his endeavours to show the insufficiency of the evidence to establish any title in the libellant, or in those whom he represents, to the merchandize in question.
The allegation of the…
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